cabaret, 1.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2
Cabin in the Sky, 9.1 and n, 9.2n, 10.1 and n
Café Society, New York, 10.1 and n, 10.2, 10.3
Cagney, James, n
Calderón, Mario Ramírez, 7.1 and n, 8.1
Caldwell, Erskine, n
California, itr.1, itr.2, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1n, 6.2n, 6.3 and n, 6.4, 7.1n, 15.1; Hughes in, 7.2, 9.1, 9.2, 14.1 and n
Calloway, Cab
Calverton, V. F., and n
Campbell, E. Simms, and n
Camus, Albert, n
Canada, and n
Capek, Josef and Karel, The World We Live In, 1.1 and n
Carco, Francis, 4.1 and n, 4.2
Carmel, California, 7.1, 9.1 and n, 9.2, 12.1n, 13.1
Carmen Jones, 10.1 and n, 11.1
Carmon, Rose, 7.1 and n, 8.1
Carmon, Walt, 6.1n, 7.1 and n, 8.1
Carnegie Hall, New York, 10.1n, 13.1n
Carpenter, Elliot, and n
Carpenter, John Alden, 5.1 and n; Four Negro Songs, 5.2n
Carr, Charlotte, 10.1 and n, 10.2
Carroll, Diahann, n
Cartier-Bresson, Henri, 7.1 and n; portrait of Hughes, 13.1
Carver, George Washington, 10.1 and n, 10.2 and n
Castro, José Antonio Fernández de, 7.1 and n, 10.1
Cavanaugh, Inez, and n
Cayton, Horace R., Jr., 10.1 and n, 10.2 and n, 10.3, 10.4 and n, 15.1 and n, 16.1n
CBS, 8.1n, 10.1n, 10.2n, 14.1 and n
Cendrars, Blaise, Anthologie Nègre, 4.1n
Central High School, Cleveland, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3, 1.1, 1.2n, 3.1
Century magazine, 10.1n
Cerf, Bennett, and n
Césaire, Aimé, n
Ce Soir, 6.1n, 8.1n, 8.2
Chaliapin, Feodor, and n
Chambers, Pat, n
Chapin, Cornelia, n
Chapin, L. H. Paul, and n
Charleston (dance), 1.1n, 3.1, 14.1
Chauve-Souris, and n
Cheever, John, n
Chen (Leyda), Sylvia, itr.1, 6.1 and n, 6.2, 7.1n, 7.2, 8.1n; Hughes’s letters to, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 8.2
Chicago, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1n, 3.2n, 4.1 and n, 4.2, 4.3n, 5.1n, 8.1, 8.2n, 9.1, 9.2 and n, 10.1 and n, 10.2 and n, 10.3n, 10.4; Hall Branch Library, 11.1; Hughes in, 8.3, 10.5, 11.2 and n; 1919 riots, 8.4 and n
Chicago Defender, The, itr.1, 4.1n, 4.2 and n, 7.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2 and n, 12.1, 12.2n, 14.1 and n; Hughes’s columns in, 10.3, 10.4 and n, 10.5, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5 and n, 11.6, 12.3, 12.4 and n, 11.7, 12.5, 12.6 and n, 12.7 and n, 13.1, 14.2n, 15.1 and n
Chicago Evening Post, 7.1n
Chicago Herald Examiner, 7.1n
Chicago Players
Child, Julia, n
children’s books, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3, itr.4, 5.1 and n; 7.1n, 12.1 and n, 13.1, 13.2. See also specific works
Childress, Alice, and n
China, itr.1, 4.1, 6.1 and n, 6.2, 6.3 and n, 10.1n
Christie, Agatha, n
“Christ in Alabama,”
Christophe, Henri, and n
Churchill, Winston, and n
Citizen Kane, 9.1 and n
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), and n
civil rights movement, 10.1, 12.1n, 12.2n, 13.1, 13.2n, 14.1n, 14.2n, 14.3n, 15.1, 16.1 and n
Civil War, n
Clark, Barrett, and n
Clark, Carrie, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3, 1.1, 1.2n, 1.3n, 2.1 and n, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 and n, 4.1, 4.2 and n, 4.3n, 4.4, 6.1n, 7.1, 7.2 and n, 7.3n, 8.1; Hughes’s letters to, 2.2, 7.4, 8.2; illness and death of, 8.3, 8.4 and n, 8.5 and n, 8.6n, 8.7, 10.1 and n
Clark, Gwyn “Kit,” 2.1 and n, 3.1, 4.1n, 4.2n, 4.3, 4.4 and n, 5.1n, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1
Clark, Homer, n
Clark, Kenneth, and n
Clark, Mamie Phipps, n
Clark, William J., 6.1 and n, 6.2
Clay, Cassius (Muhammad Ali), prf.1, 15.1n; Hughes’s letters to, 15.2
Cleveland, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3, 1.1, 1.2n, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 and n, 4.4 and n, 4.5, 4.6n, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1 and n, 15.1n
Cleveland Public Library, n
Clurman, Harold, 9.1, 9.2
“Cock o’ the World,” and n
Coffee, Lenore, Family Portrait, 9.1 and n
Cohen, Hettie
Cohn, Roy, and n
Cold War, n
Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel, n
Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, The, 14.1 and n, 14.2 and n
Collette, Buddy, and n
colonialism
Colston Leigh Agency, 11.1 and n, 14.1n, 14.2n
Colton, John, Rain: A Play in Three Acts, 1.1 and n
“Columbia,” n
Columbia University, itr.1, itr.2, 3.1n, 3.2n, 12.1n, 14.1n; Hughes at, itr.3, itr.4, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 and n, 1.4 and n, 1.5 and n, 1.6n, 3.3; Spectator, 1.7 and n
Columbus, Ohio, and n
Common Ground, 9.1n, 10.1
Common Sense Historical Review, 9.1n
communism, itr.1, itr.2, 5.1n, 6.1n, 7.1 and n, 7.2, 7.3 and n, 7.4n, 8.1n, 8.2, 9.1n, 9.2n, 9.3n, 9.4, 10.1n, 11.1, 11.2n, 12.1n, 14.1n; Hollywood blacklisting, 12.2; Hughes’s alleged links to, itr.3, itr.4, 9.5n, 11.3, 11.4 and n, 11.5 and n, 11.6 and n, 11.7 and n, 12.3, 12.4 and n, 12.5, 12.6 and n, 12.7 and n, 16.1; McCarthy hearings, itr.5, itr.6, 9.6n, 12.8, 12.9 and n, 12.10 and n, 13.1n
Congo, 2.1 and n, 15.1 and n
Congress, U.S., 11.1n, 12.1n; subcommittee on “un-American” activities, itr.1, itr.2, 9.1n, 12.2, 12.3 and n, 12.4 and n, 13.1n
Congress for Peace Action and Against Bombing of Open Cities, 8.1n, 8.2, 16.1n
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), 15.1, 15.2 and n
Connelly, Marcus Cook, and n
Conrad, Joseph, 1.1, 1.2
Conroy, Jack, 10.1n, 10.2n
Contempo, 5.1 and n
Continents, Les, 2.1 and n, 2.2 and n
Cook, Mercer, 7.1n, 10.1 and n; Hughes’s letters to, 10.2
Cool World, The, 14.1 and n, 14.2, 16.1
copyrights, 4.1, 7.1, 10.1, 10.2n, 10.3, 11.1 and n, 12.1 and n, 14.1, 14.2
“Cora Unashamed,” 6.1 and n, 7.1 and n, 14.1
Corelli, Franco, n
Cornell, College
Corwin, Norman, and n
Cotton Strike (1933), 7.1n, 7.2n
Couch, W. I., 10.1 and n, 10.2n
Coussey, Anne Marie, 2.1 and n, 2.2 and n
Covarrubias, Miguel, 3.1, 3.2 and n, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 8.1; illustration for The Weary Blues, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6n
Cowen, William Joyce, Family Portrait, 9.1 and n
Cowl, Jane, 1.1 and n, 1.2
Coyoacán shootings, and n
Crawford, Matt, and n
Crisis, The, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3, 1.1, 1.2 and n, 1.3n, 1.4n, 1.5 and n, 1.6n, 1.7n, 2.1n, 2.2, 2.3 and n, 3.1 and n, 3.2, 3.3n, 3.4n, 4.1, 4.2 and n, 5.1, 7.1n, 7.2 and n, 9.1 and n, 9.2, 12.1, 14.1, 16.1n
Crosby, Bing
Crowder, Henry, 5.1n, 15.1 and n
Crowe, Lee, 9.1 and n, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1
Crown Publishers
Cuba, itr.1, 1.1, 3.1n, 3.2 and n, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 and n, 4.4 and n, 4.5, 4.6 and n, 4.7 and n, 4.8, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1 and n, 8.1n; black vernacular forms, 4.9 and n, 4.10
Cullen, Countee, itr.1, prf.1, 1.1, 1.2n, 1.3 and n, 1.4 and n, 1.5, 2.1n, 2.2n, 3.1n, 4.1 and n, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 7.1 and n, 9.1n, 10.1n, 11.1, 16.1n; Caroling Dusk, 2.3n, 4.6n; Color, 1.6n, 2.4n; “From the Dark Tower,” 3.2n; Hughes’s letters to, 1.7, 1.8, 2.5, 2.6, 7.2, 7.3, 10.2; “Suicide Chant,” 2.7 and n; “Tableau,” 1.9n
cummings, e. e., n
Cunard, Nancy, 5.1 and n, 12.1, 12.2n, 15.1n, 15.2; Hughes’s letters to, 5.2, 12.3; Negro, 5.3 and n, 5.4n, 9.1n, 15.3n
Cuney, William Waring, 8.1 and n, 14.1 and n, 16.1; “The Death Bed,” 8.2n; “No Images,” 8.3n

Daily Worker, 9.1n
Dakar, Senegal, 16.1, 16.2 and n, 16.3 and n
dance, 1.1n, 3.1, 9.1 and n, 14.1n
Dandridge, Dorothy, n
Danley, R. J. M., 1.1 and n, 1.2
Danner, Margaret, and n
D’Annunzio, Gabriele, 1.1n; The Flame of Life, 1.2n, 1.3 and n
“Danse Africaine,” 2.1, 2.2 and n
Darby, Ada Claire, Jump Lively, Jeff, 10.1 and n
Darch, “Ragtime” Bob, and n
“The Dark Tower,” n
Darrow, Clarence, n
Davis, Benjamin J., Jr., 11.1 and n; Hughes’s letters to, 11.2
Davis, Griffith, and n
Davis, Jimmy, 15.1n; Hughes’s letters to, 15.2, 15.3
Davis, John P., 12.1n, 15.1 and n
Davis, Miles, n
Davis, Sammy, Jr., 12.1n, 15.1n
Davis, William Allison, and n
Day-Lewis, Cecil, and n
Dear Lovely Death, itr.1, 4.1 and n, 5.1 and n, 12.1; jacket, 5.2, 5.3
“Dear Mr. President,”
“Death in Harlem,” 7.1 and n, 7.2
DeCarava, Roy, 13.1 and n; photographs from The Sweet Flypaper of Life, 13.2 and n, 13.3
Decca Records
Decker, Caroline, and n
Deeter, Jasper, and n
Dell, Floyd, n
Demby, William, and n
De Organizer, 8.1 and n
de Paur, Leonard, and n
Depression, 4.1 and n, 6.1, 6.2 and n, 7.1, 7.2n, 8.1n, 10.1n, 12.1n, 12.2
Dessalines, Jean-Jacques, 4.1n, 4.2n, 8.1n
Detroit, 4.1n, 4.2n
Dett, R. Nathaniel, and n
Díaz, Porfirio, and n
Dickinson, Donald C., 14.1, 14.2 and n
Dickinson, Emily, n
Dill, Augustus Granville, 1.1 and n, 1.2, 2.1
Diop, Alioune, 13.1n, 14.1 and n, 14.2
Di Prima, Diane, and n
Dismond, Geraldyn, and n
“Do Big Negroes Keep Little Negroes Down?,” and n
Dodd, Mead, 12.1n, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 16.1
Don’t You Want to Be Free?, 8.1, 8.2n, 10.1n
Doubleday, 11.1, 11.2 and n, 16.1
Douglas, Aaron, 3.1 and n, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1
Douglas, Norman, n
Drake, St. Clair, n
“Drama for Winter Night,” n
Dramatists Guild, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 12.1
Dream Keeper and Other Poems, The, 5.1 and n, 10.1, 14.1; illustrations, 5.2 and n, 5.3
“Dreams,” 1.1, 1.2 and n
“Dream Variations,” and n
Dreiser, Theodore, 5.1 and n, 6.1, 8.1 and n, 8.2, 8.3 and n, 8.4
Drew, Bernard, n
Drum, itr.1, 12.1 and n, 13.1
Du Bois, Shirley Graham, and n
Du Bois, W. E. B., itr.1, 1.1n, 1.2n, 4.1n, 4.2n, 4.3, 5.1n, 9.1n, 10.1n, 10.2n, 10.3, 11.1n, 12.1n, 13.1, 13.2n, 14.1, 14.2n, 14.3 and n; Darkwater, 12.2 and n; Hughes’s letters to, 12.3, 13.3; “A Litany at Atlanta,” 16.1 and n; “The Prayers of God,” 16.2 and n; The Souls of Black Folk, 13.4 and n
Du Bois, Yolande, and n
Duckett, Alfred, n
Duff, Donald, 1.1 and n, 1.2
Duke, Vernon, 9.1 and n, 9.2n
Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 12.1 and n; Lyrics of Lowly Life, 12.2n
Duncan, Todd, and n
Dunham, Katherine, and n
Dunne, Father George H., and n
Durem, Ray, 12.1 and n; “Award,” 12.2n; Hughes’s letters to, 12.3
Durham, Richard
Durland, Addison, and n
Duse, Eleanora, 1.1 and n, 2.1